Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister for seven months from autumn 1922 to spring 1923, was born in New Brunswick.

Björn Borg, Wimbledon champion 1976 to 1980.

The English Patient was burnt to a crisp in an airplane cockpit, but his pocket copy of Herodotus' History survived, as did his parachute. I call Yati.

The Hobbit was went temporarily out print in 1942 when Allen and Unwin's warehouse was burnt down in the Blitz.

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Here is where I ran out of Star Trek jokes.

What should come next is a ST/Hobbit crossover episode. Then perhaps a half season in the Delta Quadrant. And then maybe a stint in Star Trek Phase II, the Seventies TV series that was never made. That would have been enough to get to episode 65, and syndication.

What if you simply must have more Door Repair Guy? There is a DRG-like character named Dwayne in Shaolin Cricket and Wonderful Hell, two stories I wrote around 2005. Or hunt up Turvey by Earle Birney, or Artie Greengroin, Pfc. by Harry Brown. The character Hoshino in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is extremely DRG-like, especially in chapter thirty of that book.

If you were to read only one DRG episode, which would it be? I recommend either #7 "The Doors of Perception", #19 "Chekov's Brain" or #21 "Stomping Ground".

Artie Greengroin, Pfc., a character invented by Harry Brown, appeared not in Stars and Stripes, but Yank, The Army Weekly during World War Two. Though he is the lowest ranking member of the US Army, Artie is mistaken for an Oxford don in one installment. A Canadian literary ancestor of DRG is Earle Birney's Private Turvey.

Pictured at the top is the prop Stargazer from the TNG set. Read all about it here.

Star Trek: the Original Series, has had a huge influence on popular culture. Star Trek: the Next Generation a bit less, it would seem at first glance. But ask anyone what a holodeck is. The Dreamatorium in this season's Community is a holodeck in all but trademark. And the name Stargazer has worked its way into the space industry. Orbital Sciences is a Virginia company that air-launches satellites into low Earth orbit using a renovated Lockheed L-1011 named Stargazer to lift a Pegasus rocket above the cloudy weather that causes so many ground launch delays. Stargazer is Picard's pre-Enterprise ship, and Pegasus is Riker's. In its previous career Orbital's Stargazer was an Air Canada passenger jet. True fact!

If you take the years 1972-1980 as the era of disco, there is an expanding hollow sphere of radio disco music (the discosphere) expanding from the earth and currently 80 light years in diameter at its outer edge and 62 light years at its inner edge. Given that a Star Trek sector is a cubic area of space 20 light years on each side, as this article suggests, then all of Sector 001 is already contained in the inner hollow post-disco space, and each of the founding planets of the Federation has gotten over its dance fever.

The Canadian $2 coin made its first appearance in February 1996. It took a while for the public to settle on toonie as the common nickname, and for a short while doubloon was in play. The coin is made of two parts: a bronze middle section about the size of a penny, and an outer nickel ring. You could make the centre part of the 1996 issue pop out.